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NSW Department of Planning, Housing and Infrastructure
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Environmental Planning Instrument - Foreshore Building Line

This data identifies the foreshore building line. Land between this line and the high water mark of the nearest natural waterbody comprises the foreshore area. Development in the foreshore area is subject to an "Additional Local Provision" which can be found in Part 6 or Part 7 of the Local Environment Plan

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Language English
Alternative Title EPI - FBL
Edition 1
Purpose This spatial dataset identifies the foreshore building line (FBL). The FBL highlights the distance landward from the Deed High Water Mark (DHWM) where buildings and/or structures or other forms of development can occur.
Frequency of change As needed
Keywords HUMAN-ENVIRONMENT-Planning
Metadata Date 2017-12-18
Date of Asset Creation 2012-11-08
License Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
Equivalent Scale 320000
Vector representation
Record 1
Object type
Surface
Object count
Geospatial Topic Environment
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Dataset extent
Temporal Coverage From 2012-08-11
Datum GDA94 Geographic (Lat\Long)
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Attribution NSW Department of Planning, Housing and Infrastructure asserts the right to be attributed as author of the original material in the following manner: "© State Government of NSW and NSW Department of Planning, Housing and Infrastructure 2025"